Jack Davis cast a spinnerbait in the bend of a creek, started his retrieve and promptly hooked up with a fish.
A ferocious spotted bass almost tore the rod from his hands. Davis held on, wearing the fish down, and landed and admired it before casting out again. […]
If you were to go out looking for someone to sit down and talk with about striper fishing on Barnett Reservoir, you’d have a hard time. Most of those who catch them, typically by accident, hate them or at the least don’t care for them. Those who do fish for them regularly run when they see you coming. […]
The Pascagoula is far from the longest river in Mississippi, running only 80 miles from the convergence of the Chickasawhay and Leaf rivers to where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico without great fanfare. […]
The season is weeks away, so it’s time to get everything in order. And we have all the information and tips you’ll need to start the fall with a bang. […]
I heard the fish, but didn’t see it. My guide recognized the sound immediately.
“That’s a gar gulping air: Look for the bubbles or the rings of water,” said Mark Beason, who was standing on the bow of the boat and quickly reeling in his line. “That was close by.” […]
It’s a given that August is hot, humid and nasty. Who in the world is thinking now about fall hunting?
Well, any deer hunter worth his trail camera, grunt call, bow and arrows or a favorite deer rifle is already dreaming about sitting over a well-groomed food plot in a well-positioned tree stand or shooting house. […]
I’ve provided information about the biology of bluegill and redear sunfish, Mississippi’s two most-popular sunfish, in the two previous columns. […]
Wood — once a tree, felled by man or nature, it’s now a bass fortress and a structure to be negotiated, encroached upon, invaded by those seeking a face-to-face with said fish. […]
The language of whitetail rubs and scrapes is diverse and, at times, complex — especially when bucks ravage the timber with cluster rubs. […]
Mississippi’s 2016 National Sporting Clays Association (NCSA) State Championship will be held Aug. 4-7 at Providence Hill Sporting Club near Jackson. […]
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks will begin accepting applications today for youth dove hunts scheduled at two of its Wildlife Management Areas in September. […]
The Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources last week certified a new state record fish, swore in a new commissioner and announced that seasons on two popular sport fish will remain closed. […]
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